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Georgia and South Ossetia — working to identify the dead
david sanakoyev

Georgia and South Ossetia — working to identify the dead

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There are over 2,000 people whose fate is still unaccounted for from Georgia’s conflicts in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, making it difficult for families to grieve and move on. While cross border efforts lead by the Red Cross are in full swing to find, exhume, and identify the bodies of the fallen — time is not on their side. ‘If he is dead, then where is his body?’ For nine years Ana Samadalashvili from Gori has been waiting for her husband to return home. On 8 August 2008, Zaza Birtveli

relatives of missing persons plant seedlings in the central park in Armavir, Armenia (H. Galstyan/ICRC)
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No political will in Armenia to find the missing persons of the Karabakh conflict [Analysis]

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Thousands of people have gone missing due to the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. More than two decades have passed since a ceasefire agreement was signed, but thousands of families still do not know what happened to their loved ones. According to a report by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), 4,604 Azerbaijanis and 947 Armenians remain missing in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. Most of them disappeared during the 1988–1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War. Although ther

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